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RELHAN, RICHARD, son of Anthony Relhan MD FRCP FRCP (I), Brighton, Sussex, medical practitioner, and his first wife Sarah Breholt, Dublin; b. Dublin; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1767; Capt. of the School 1771; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1772, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1772, scholar 7 May 1773; BA 1776; MA 1779; ordained deacon (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1777, priest (Peterborough) 27 Jun 1779; Curate, New Romney, Kent 1777; Fellow and Chaplain, King’s Coll. Cambridge 1781; delivered a course of lectures on botany to Cambridge Univ. 1787; FRS 6 Dec 1787; Rector of Hemingby, Lincs., 1791; one of original Fellows of Linnean Society 1788; the genus Relhania was named after him by L’Héritier; author, Flora Cantabridgiensis, 1785, and of editions of Tacitus’s De Moribus Germanorum et de Vita Agricolae, 1809, and of Tacitus’s Historia, 1819; m. 31 Jul 1778 Maria Day (IGI); d. 28 Mar 1823.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.